COVID Bowl Round 1 - 2022 Wild Card Thread

welp

that was crazy!

only possible way to end this game was to keep one of the QBs from being allowed to come out

xp i thought that too but was tyreke returning ? they coulda been worried he could break 1

What a goddamn fucking game

WELP

what a heart wrenching loss for the Bills. idk if I'd ever get over that

I love you Josh Allen

Sob!

Just…. wow!

sorry horseshoe i was rooting for em

so many interesting story lines possible.

RAMS - make it again with yet another quarterback?

Bengals - first SB since the Boomer/Ickey years?

Chiefs - ok, this one's been done

49ers - Garropolo redemption arc?

I was just walking home and I decided to get a smashburger on the back patio of this place I'd never tried and I ended up participating in some kind of cultural moment I think?

chiefs - will andy reid's sons kill anyone

I'm sorry horseshoe I was rooting for the Bills and brought Vikings energy to them

really sucks that Allen is going home and a QB as mediocre as Jimmy G. is still going

So much for defense, fuck off NFL

really didn't look like the Chiefs were gonna be contenders for so long this year, but boy they fixed that fast

thank you lagoon and matt

what a heart wrenching loss for the Bills. idk if I'd ever get over that

― frogbs, Sunday, January 23, 2022 10:01 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

loooool small potatoes compared to what Bills fans have seen.

Josefa at 9:21 23 Jan 22

So much for defense, fuck off NFL

this is a very odd reaction to this weekend!

the bills are the only nfl team i care about :( :( :(

all four games this weekend were great, but Bills/Chiefs was one for the ages

god damn

Andy Reid on Patrick Mahomes' chances with 13 seconds left: "When it's grim, be the grim reaper."

— Sam McDowell (@SamMcDowell11) January 24, 2022

yo lol

Best weekend of football I’ve ever witnessed

xpost he then followed that with

"Grim Reapah burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb"

Patrick Mahomes threw for 188 yards after the two-minute warning.

The #Bears only threw for more than 188 yards in 8 games this season. And it took them until Week 9 to do it for the first time.

(h/t my wife for making me look this up)

— Adam Hoge (@AdamHoge) January 24, 2022

It's a lot easier to rack up big passing yardage when your receivers run for most of them after making the reception.

nailed it, as ever

This, this was good. Very very very good.

Maybe I should just break up with NFL for now, I think I can do it. I have no rooting interests. Yeah, maybe.

Mahomes was unbelievable but I thought this was a head scratcher by BUF defense 👇🏻
(Volume up) pic.twitter.com/dBZHlQgOsd

— Daniel Jeremiah (@MoveTheSticks) January 24, 2022

if you're wondering "how did Kelce get so open?" on that final throw in regulation, here it is. Bills playing prevent defense despite Chiefs having all their timeouts. idk what they were thinking

also watching some footage of the Packers offense from Saturday and indeed it appears that Rodgers played a pretty bad game after the first drive. St. Brown and Deguara were fairly open on a bunch of plays (not wide open, but open enough where Rodgers should easily have been able to hit them) but instead he keeps trying to force it to Adams or dump it to Jones. obviously hitting Adams is what sank the 49ers during the regular season matchup and doubling him seems to be the main adjustment they made after that first drive. insane that Rodgers doesn't seem to figure this out at all.

It's a lot easier to rack up big passing yardage when your receivers run for most of them after making the reception.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, January 23, 2022 10:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i'm trying to understand this - so yards after catch is cheating somehow?

a big part of being a good QB is being able to find players and space and hit them in stride (the biggest factor in YAC)

here's the top 10 teams for yards after catch:

Rank Team Yards after Catch
1 Kansas City Chiefs 2700
2 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2623
3 Green Bay Packers 2485
4 Cincinnati Bengals 2423
5 Las Vegas Raiders 2357
6 Los Angeles Chargers 2350
7 Arizona Cardinals 2307
8 San Francisco 49ers 2264
9 Dallas Cowboys 2207
10 Los Angeles Rams 2145

here's the top 10 passers:

Tom Brady
5316

Justin Herbert
5014

Matthew Stafford
4886

Patrick Mahomes
4839

Derek Carr
4804

Joe Burrow
4611

Dak Prescott
4449

Josh Allen
4407

Kirk Cousins
4221

Aaron Rodgers
4115

so, it's correlating (josh allen excepting - bills yac is #20) that the best QBs have the most YAC, presumably because of accuracy/timing/etc (could be speed but for example tyreek hill is not high up on the YAC list and he's generally considered maybe the fastest person in the NFL)

over the course of a full season, sure. I think the point he was trying to make is that there is a lot of variance when you add in YAC. I just thought the stat was funny considering that, y'know, the Bears could've had Mahomes

yards after catch is cheating somehow?

I was more trying to respond that a weird made-up stat like 'passing yardage gained per minute of clock time' is not a reliable measure of quarterback skill, compared to, well, any QB stat that's widely used and recognized. It's striking, but it's not a good measure of anything. What's more telling are the number of points scored by KC in that amount of time.

Did @tkelce orchestrate the 13-second drive? 👀

(via @nflfilms, @insidethenfl) pic.twitter.com/fBXQXBSgSF

— NFL (@NFL) January 25, 2022

DO IT KELCE ..... uh-huh

incredible

holy shit, what a legend

Jesus Christ shut the fuck up

Aaron Rodgers says people were rooting against the Packers solely because of his vaccination status. pic.twitter.com/oXsRTZk2Co

— The Sporting News (@sportingnews) January 25, 2022

i . . . cannot actually argue with that

it me

rogers seems spot on. take the hint, aaron.

He really looks like shit these days

Jimmy Garoppolo on the other hand looks fantastic

placing the ball so your receiver can avoid getting hit and gain yards after the catch is indeed a skill, idk what that was upthread

Yeah dude looks and generally plays like an actor playing the lead role in a football movie

what is it about wisconsin that turns its quarterbacks into these grizzled wrung out beasts

i . . . cannot actually argue with that

― mookieproof, Tuesday, January 25, 2022 8:25 PM (fifty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

well yeah there's some truth to it but it still comes off like "oh you just don't like Trump because of the mean tweets..."

something in the Wrangler indigo dye

what's really striking to me about all this is remembering when Rodgers came into the league; here was this guy who was supposed to be the first overall pick, and instead he just kept sliding and sliding until he finally got picked by the Packers, who made him sit for 3 years behind a guy who didn't really seem interested in training him for the starting role. there was this sense that he'd gotten screwed and he was asked about it in interviews all the time. and he actually handled them really well, basically saying "look, I'm going to be the starter, nobody on this planet is going to feel sorry for me so I won't feel sorry for myself". dude would not entertain any of the drama. I know that was a while ago but going from that to "Help! I'm being cancelled! Nobody likes me because they can't handle my opinions!!!" is pretty nuts. I can only imagine the shit that's gone on behind the scenes.

seems like he's been drama for a long time, throwing stuff on the sideline, pissed at his teammates and coaches for letting HIM down. this is not a reveal.